Churn-motor



(NoM0de1'.) M. F. OONNETT.-

GHURN MOTOR. No. 363,807. Patented May 31, 1887.

r v Ji /671507 \I I va %6 n. PETERS, Plumb-Lithographer, wish; gggggg c.

NITED STATEs PATENT ()FFICE.

MATTHEW E. OONNETT, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

-o CHURN-MOTQR.

SPECIFICATION forming, part of Letters Patent No. 363.807, dated May 31,1887.

Application filed March 16, 1887. Serial No. 231,119. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW F. CoNNETT,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county ofPeoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin Churn-Motors; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to churn-motors.

The object of the invention is to produce a churn-motor which mayreadily be attached to and detached from a churn, and whereby thecontinuous revolution of the fly-wheel is converted into one or more'successivei'evolutions of the churn-dasher in opposite directions.

With this object in view my invention consists, essentially, inachurn-motor made up of a fly-wheel mounted upon a stand, tripod, or thelike, which may be set near the churn to be operated, a pitman connectedeccentric ally to the fly-wheel, and straps attached at one of theirends to the pitman and at the other end wound around a churn-dasher or aconnection thereof, whereby by the reciprocation of the pitman caused bythe wheel in revolving the straps are alternately wound and unwound,thus imparting motion to the dasher.

I have illustrated the invention in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure l is a side view of a churn-motor constructed in accordance withmy invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

In the drawings, A represents a tripod consisting of the depending legs13, the upper portion, 0, and the bifurcated arm G 0. At the point ofjuncture between the upper portion, 0, and the bifurcated arm CO ismounted the shaft D, bearing the fly-wheel E. This flywheel E isprovided on one side with a crank, F, attached to its axle, and on theopposite side with a crank-handle, G, attached to one ofits spokes.

To the same spoke to which the crank-handle G is attached is pivoted oneend of a pitman, H, and to the outer end of the pitman are attached ashort distance apart the ends of 'ing motion to the dasher.

the straps I I. The other ends of the straps are attached to the upperportion of the dasher-staff J of the churn, so that by the reciprocationof the pitman the straps are alternately wound'and unwound, thus impart-The upper endof the dasher-staff is mounted in suitable bearings intheends of the projecting arms.

The preferred manner of attaching the dasher of the churn to theoperating mechanism is by the piece K, to which the ends of the strapsare'attached, and which is pro-' vided at its lower end with a socketadapted to receive the upper endof the dasher, so that as the piece Kmoves the dasher is carried with it. When the dasher and the operatingmechanism are connected in this way, they may be disconnected speedilyand easily by simply raising the motor up, so as to have the squareupper end of the daslier clear th socket K.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is- In a churn-motor, the combination, with asuitable base, of a bifurcated horizontal arm rigidly fastened thereto,a horizontal shaft journaled in the base at its junction with saidhorizontal arm and transverse with reference to said arm, a fly-wheelmounted on the shaft and provided with cranks on its opposite faces, avertical flasher-staff journaled in the outer ends of said bifurcatedarm, a single pitman pivoted to the crank-handle on one side of saidfly-wheel and extending beyond said dasher-staff, and two straps lyingon the same side of the dasher-stafi' and having their con tiguous endswrapped about the staff in 0pposite directions and fastened thereto andtheir opposite ends fastened to said single pitman, substantially asshown and described, whereby the rotation of the fly-wheel and thereciprocation of the pitman impart reciprocal rotation to saiddasher-stafl.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MATTHEW F. CONN ETT.

Witnesses:

DAVID H. MEAD,

A. KEITHLEY.

